Fig 1: Increase of demand of STEM jobs in 2000-2010 compared to the projected over 2008-2018. Increasing the gap difference of Non-STEM jobs [STEM, website]. …show more content…
Physics generates fundamental knowledge needed for the future technological advances. Many students currently graduate high school with a small background in STEM related classes. Because of this, students are unaware nor will become interested in going to college for a STEM related major. An estimate of roughly 39% from the class of 2013 took high school physics before graduating [AIP, website]. If students are shown how interesting something might be they tend to not show interest later on. Emerging innovations like being able to travel to the moon, as well as the Mars Rover all involve the knowledge of physics. As the need for more engineers and scientists are growing; STEM related classes will be more valuable than